The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Religion offers a comprehensive and compelling review of research in religious beliefs and practices from an evolutionary perspective on human psychology. The chapters, written by renowned experts on human behavior and religion, explore a number of subtopics within one of three themes: (1) the psychological mechanisms of religion, (2) evolutionary perspectives on the functionality of religion, and (3)
evolutionary perspectives on religion and group living.This handbook unites the theoretical and empirical work of leading scholars in the evolutionary, cognitive, and anthropological sciences
to produce an extensive and authoritative review of this literature. Its interdisciplinary approach makes it an important resource for a broad spectrum of researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates who are interested in studying the factors and mechanisms that underlie and/or affect religious beliefs and behaviors.
The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Religion offers a comprehensive and compelling review of research in religious beliefs and practices from an evolutionary perspective on human psychology. The chapters, written by renowned experts on human behavior and religion, explore a number of subtopics within one of three themes: (1) the psychological mechanisms of religion, (2) evolutionary perspectives on the functionality of religion, and (3)
evolutionary perspectives on religion and group living.This handbook unites the theoretical and empirical work of leading scholars in the evolutionary, cognitive, and anthropological sciences
to produce an extensive and authoritative review of this literature. Its interdisciplinary approach makes it an important resource for a broad spectrum of researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates who are interested in studying the factors and mechanisms that underlie and/or affect religious beliefs and behaviors.
1. An Introduction to Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion
James R. Liddle and Todd K. Shackelford
2. Mickey, Yahweh, and Zeus: Why Cultural Learning Is Essential for
the
Evolutionary Study of Religion
Will M. Gervais
3. The Diversity of Religious Systems across History: An
Evolutionary
Cognitive Approach
Pascal Boyer and Nicolas Baumard
4. Religion as Anthropomorphism: A Cognitive Theory
Stewart Elliott Guthrie
5. Evolutionary Developmental Psychology of Children>'s
Religious
Beliefs
Tyler S. Greenway and Justin L. Barrett
6. Belief, Ritual, and the Evolution of Religion
Matt J. Rossano, Benjamin Vandewalle
7. Adolescence and Religion: An Evolutionary Perspective
Candace S. Alcorta
8. Religion and Morality: The Evolution of the Cognitive Nexus
John Teehan
9. The Kin Selection of Religion
Bernard Crespi
10. The Coevolution of Religious Belief and Intuitive Cognitive
Style via
Individual-Level Selection
Michael N. Stagnaro and David G. Rand
11. The Early Origin of Religion: Its Role as a Survival Kit
Kenneth Kardong
12. The Elephant in the Pews: Reproductive Strategy and
Religiosity
Jason Weeden, Robert Kurzban, and Douglas T. Kenrick
13. Religion: An Evolutionary Evoked Disease-Avoidance Strategy
John A. Terrizzi Jr. and Natalie J. Shook
14. Religion as a Means of Perceived Security: Testing the Secure
Society
Theory
James R. Liddle
15. Charismatic Signaling: How Religion Stabilizes Cooperation
and
Entrenches Inequality
John H. Shaver, Gloria Fraser, and Joseph Bulbulia
16. The Evolution of Religion and Morality
Azim Shariff and Brett Mercier
17. The Roots of Intergroup Conflict and the Co-optation of the
Religious
System: An Evolutionary Perspective on Religious Terrorism
Jordan Kiper and Richard Sosis
18. Selected to Kill in His Name: Evolutionary Perspectives on
Religiously
Motivated Violence
Yael Sela and Nicole Barbaro
19. Supernatural Beliefs and the Evolution of Cooperation
Pierrick Bourrat and Hugo Viciana
20. A Socio-Evolutionary Approach to Religious Change
Ryan T. Cragun and J. E. Sumerau
21. The Evolution and Exploitation of Transcendence
Gregory Gorelik
22. Challenges to an Evolutionary Perspective on Religion
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Index
James R. Liddle is a technical writer with 11 years of professional
writing experience. He received a Master of Arts degree in
Experimental Psychology, specializing in evolutionary psychology,
from Florida Atlantic University in 2014. His primary areas of
interest and expertise are the evolution of religious
beliefs/behaviors and teaching evolutionary psychology.
Todd K. Shackelford is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the
Department of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester,
Michigan., where he is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology
Lab. He received his Ph.D. in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from
the University of Texas at Austin. Much of Dr. Shackelford's
research addresses sexual conflict between men and women, with a
special focus on men's physical, emotional, and sexual violence
against their intimate partners.
This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date collection of essays
reviewing the most powerful explanations for the origins and
evolution of religious beliefs and behaviors, authored by top
experts in relevant disciplines, including a new and growing field
labeled "cognitive science of religion." The main strength of this
edited volume is its trans-disciplinary approach. The hows and whys
of religious thinking and practices are examined through the lenses
of anthropology, biology, and psychology
*J-B. Leca, University of Lethbridge, Choice Connect*
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